There he presented Cratering Piece, simultaneously detonating explosives placed at each of four corners of the plot of land and announcing the resulting gouges as sculptures. In 1960, at the age of eighteen, he mounted what might be considered his first solo show in Marin County, California. Following a brief stint at New York’s Hunter College, he traveled around the United States. Graduating from New York’s prestigious public Stuyvesant High School at the age of sixteen, he held a variety of odd jobs in the shipping and transportation industries, working aboard an oil tanker and on docks, and unloading railcars. Weiner was born in 1942 in the Bronx, where his parents ran a candy store. A firm believer that an idea alone could constitute an artwork, he established a practice that stood out for its consistent embodiment of his famous 1968 “Declaration of Intent”:Įach being equal and consistent with the intent of the artist the decision as to condition rests with the receiver upon the occasion of receivership. Known for his text-based installations incorporating evocative or descriptive phrases and sentence fragments, typically presented in bold capital letters accompanied by graphic accents and occupying unusual sites and surfaces, Weiner rose to prominence among a cohort that included Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, and Sol LeWitt. Lawrence Weiner, a towering figure in the Conceptual art movement arising in the 1960s and who profoundly altered the landscape of American art, died December 2 at the age of seventy-nine.
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